All Bloggers will be requested to migrate to Beta Blogger in a "few" weeks .......as per a reliable inside source.

Beta Blogger debuted on 14 Aug 2006 and is now fast approaching the final stage. You will get warning before it's time to migrate over to beta. However, that time is coming up sooner than you expected.

WHAT IS "ALPHA", "BETA"?

Alpha is a first release of a software product that is usually tested only by the developers

Beta is a pre-release software that has received an alpha test but still has more bugs than a regular release; "beta software is usually available only to particular users who will test it".

This blog is to help newbies to blogging and those who are migrating have a smooth and satisfying experience. Feel free to comment, contribute, rave and rant by clicking on 'COMMENTS' at the bottom of every post. Reader feedback is essential to make this THE definitive site on Beta Blogger.

If you are in old blogger you will get an invitation to migrate on the Dashboard which will look like this :

MIGRATION is the first step and then UPGRADE to a beta Template in the second step.

there you will find a link to Upgrade to a new beta template. Without this template you will not have most of the new features of beta like Layouts etc. See picture below. Click on picture for bigger view.

IMPORTANT :Only the new templates will give you Layouts and Fonts and Colors options. Migrating without upgrading to new template will not give you the new advances.

After migrating to new Blogger you cannot switch back to old Blogger. Most of the new features are due to the new templates. Hence if you feel you are having problems you can revert to the Classic Templates.

All Blogs are now in the new Blogger. Beta Blogger and the old Classic Blogger no longer exist. What exists now is only Classic Templates and Layout Templates. You can switch or interchange from Classic Templates to Layouts in the New Blogger. Enjoy!!

if i just recently got a blogger acct, am i already on the new blogger? how can i tell? i am having the most difficult time posting music via project playlist or finetune!!! i get the error message....

i switched and upgraded, but then could not successfully add the site meter, among a few other things that were on my "old" (html template) blog. so i reverted back to the "classic template." i'm pretty sure that when i did, i read that i'd be able to "re-revert" to my "new," (layout) blog. but since i have reverted back to the classic template, i have been trying how to figure out how to get back the "new," revised, blog that i made using "layout," and i can't find out how to.

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